Prompted by "Getting Started"... Planetary Boundaries Navajos Une Femme Est une Femme Pueblos Melting Freezing India Arizona Prickly Pear Tiergarten Dreyfus Spying Alexander Platz Economics Growth CO2 Clouds ... to be continued...
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#AtoZAprilChallenge: Tradition
This common word has many meanings: Williams writes that it derived from Latin: tradere - to hand over or deliver. “It is easy to see how a general word for matters handed down from father to son could become specialised, within one form of thought, to the idea of necessary respect and duty… Tradition survives … Continue reading #AtoZAprilChallenge: Tradition
After the First Draft #amediting, or am I (re) #writing?
The struggle to complete the mythical first draft opens the gate to another level of enjoyment: in this case I am waiting for the work undertaken by my editor - bless her keyboard - to be completed before switching seriously into 2nd draft gear. I have already done some work on the basis of her … Continue reading After the First Draft #amediting, or am I (re) #writing?
Daily Prompt: Elevator
You’re stuck in an elevator with an intriguing stranger. Write this scene. I am always embarrassed when I am confined in a small space, and never more than when this space is shared with a lady I don't know. It's my size, you see, I can't shrink and I am a big man, not fat … Continue reading Daily Prompt: Elevator
The End of the Challenge #AtoZChallenge #WritersWednesdays
The End of the Challenge There is always an anticlimax at the end, like finishing the first reading of a beloved book. But, somehow, one of the posts has given me an idea. Doing research for the Challenge leads sometime to old friends, or friends one did not expect to have. Thus I have met … Continue reading The End of the Challenge #AtoZChallenge #WritersWednesdays
Where To Start | The Rush Room
Where To Start | The Rush Room. Writers-in-learning please listen! Thank you KD 😉
From the very roots…
The Frontiers of the boundless future,
” I am writing a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and I am against manifestoes as a matter of principles, as I am also against principles…
I write this manifesto to show that one may perform opposed actions together, in a single fresh respiration.
I am against action and for continual contradiction, for affirmation also, I am neither for nor against and I do not explain for I hate good sense….
There is a literature which does not reach the voracious mass. The work of creators, sprung from a real necessity on the part of the author, and for himself. Consciousness of a supreme egotism where the stars waste away…
Each page must explode, either with the profoundly serious and heavy, the whirlwind, the dizziness, the new, the eternal, with the overwhelming hoax, with an enthusiasm for principles or with…
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#BlogMeMaybe: May 7 – May I tell you something about writing?
“On Writing” by Stephen King is the book that got me started, and keeps me going. When I first read Stephen’s account of his beginnings, and how he, somehow, overcame the odds stacked against him, I knew I would have to try. And of course I’m still trying, and this is the lesson. This is … Continue reading #BlogMeMaybe: May 7 – May I tell you something about writing?
Thank you so much, and so impressed by the company… Have to work harder now!
A sense of humour is a beautiful thing. A sense of humour with a touch of irony is not only a beautiful thing but a match made in heaven. Give me a sense of humour, with a touch of irony sautéed in creative word play butter and I’m in orbit.
So having just landed back to earth and having waited for Ryan Seacrest to get his crispy clean tux back from the dry-cleaners after that OTHER award show, I am now in a position to pay the ABC Blogging Award forward. Some time back in April, Wendy from Finally…Wendy Wonders presented me with the ABC Blogging Award for Awesome Blogging Content. Not only did Wendy present me with the award, but she did so whilst I was partway through the A to Z Blogging Challenge and with a requirement that I have to make an alphabetical list of 26 things about myself (still…
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Just Walking This Earth: Doing the hard work – Editing
Just Walking This Earth: Doing the hard work - Editing. Why don't I do all of this? Smiling timidly... Must try harder!
Of Glass & Paper 